extenuate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →extenuo, extenuare, extenuavi, extenuatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
make thin; diminish;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...minuunt et deprimunt nec, ut putatis, exacuunt, sed extenuant. Obsecro vos, tam necessariam curam maioribus melioribusque debitam..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...antris; sed tamen haeret amor crescitque dolore repulsae; extenuant vigiles corpus miserabile curae adducitque cutem macies..."